THE EFFECTS OF FEEDBACK ON EFL LEARNERS'WRITING SKILLS.

Abstract

The importance of teacher feedback in the development of adequate writing skills cannot be overstated. However, feedback that the students do not and/or cannot process is considered useless. The ultimate purpose of this study was to ensure the incorporation of feedback into the learners' written productions through the use of two separate research tools. The instructors’ actual practices and patterns of teaching writing at AL- ARI BELKHIR secondary school are revealed through the use of teacher’s questionnaire. The results of the second research instrument, a writing test, mirrored the efficacy of teacher comments proposed in this study: The participant students not only incorporated a significant proportion of their teachers’ remarks, but they also made fewer errors .Moreover, there was an overall improvement in subsequent drafts. The findings of this study encourage teachers to integrate the multiple draft technique into classrooms, and more crucially, to provide comments on preliminary drafts rather than their final drafts.